On the other hand, if we are reading a poem by Wallace Stevens or an essay by the contemporary philosopher Mark Greif50 in Against Everything, we might well use different forms of inference, as well as a more nuanced range of emotions, than when we are reading . . . well, about motor neurons. Reading, at least all deep reading, requires the use of analogical reasoning and inference if we are to uncover the multiple layers of meaning in what we read.
